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Submit your completed application to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) located in the International and Graduate Affairs Building, Room #1N07. Office hours are Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales) is on a multi-billion dollar mission to build one of the highest impact, most ambitious and globally connected universities on the planet, and we’re looking for the world’s best minds to join us.

We’re making an unprecedented investment to recruit nearly a thousand exceptional Fellows and PhD scholars linked to an exciting new academic career model built on mentorship, flexibility and opportunities for leadership development.

If you want to be a part of a global top 50 university, and you believe you are at the top of your field, we want to hear from you. UNSW’s Scientia Fellowship Program and Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme offer unique benefits, individualized support, exciting career pathways and guaranteed funding for you to reach your personal development goals.

WORLDiscoveries will be hosting two Patent Search Workshops this coming June. You will receive hands-on training from Dr. Jan Payne, with assistance from other technology transfer professionals, on how to search patent databases.

Postdoctoral Scholars are invited to attend this information session about the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth.

The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is to:

attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally

The fastest growing scientific festival in the world is coming to London this May for the first time!

The Pint of Science Festival's goal is to allow as many people as possible to discover the latest scientific research through an accessible, fun, and interesting lecture format -- in a pub! We are bringing amazing scientists (including Western graduate students, postdocs, and PIs!) out of their labs to local pubs, where they will discuss their latest research and discoveries. This is the perfect opportunity to meet the people responsible for the future of science, ask them questions, win prizes, and enjoy a night out!

Be part of the biggest celebration of science together with hundreds of venues across 11 countries (UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Australia, Thailand, Japan and Canada) from May 15 to May 17.

Registration is FREE.

Events will take place at the Fox and Fiddle located in the Citi Plaza at 355 Wellington Road, and the Poacher's Arms located at 171 Queens Avenue.

What: An informal group of folks interested in using and learning more about the R programming language. Our June 1st topic will feature how to create awesome 3D graphics in R, beginning with the basics for generating 2D plots and building up from there.When: June 1, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Where: UnLondon Community Space: 211 King Street, London ON (corner of King and Clarence). UnLondon is located in the old Novack's building - look for the big blue Novack's sign out front, head in the front door, then turn around and head up the stairs.

What do I need to bring?Have a laptop (we have chargers and wifi available) with R, R Studio, and XQuartz installed.

Also be sure to install the following R packages by running this code in your R console:install.packages(c("car","psych","scatterplot3d","Rcmdr","rgl","gvlma"))

If you have any problems with the installation, let us know by posting on our MeetUp page discussion board, or emailing us.

Previous research has shown that socioeconomic gaps in GPA and test scores cannot be accounted for only by differences in underlying academic ability. Whereas earlier studies have documented the role of non-academic student traits such as self-discipline or cultural capital, this research is the first to examine the role of differing institutional features, specifically grading practices, for widening or closing GPA gaps.

The research uses a Swedish educational reform, which changed the compulsory school’s grading system from a 5-point relative scale to a 4-point absolute scale between 1997 and 1998. Under reasonable and largely testable assumption, the change between these two years in the association between various socioeconomic background variables and student GPA has a causal interpretation as an effect of the changing grading practice.

Dr. Anders Hjorth-Trolle is visiting from Sweden, and we would love to see you all there!

Don’t miss it!

Everyone welcome. No RSVP required.

Contact socevent@uwo.ca if you require information in an alternate format, or if any other arrangements can make these events accessible to you.